Friends helping Nathan with the idea suggested ditching the puppets and focusing on animation. He knew they were right. Over time, Bodisutra developed into two different paths: the animation, which focuses on "remembering to laugh" and Sutranovum - which showcases design and insights that help with the issues which Bodisutra puts in story form.
Bodisutra aims to marry the classic power of Winnie the Pooh, which lies in:
The innocence of loving simple things
Love among friends
The joy they experience
The fact that Eeyore is frequently depressed but not judged.
It’s not pandered too like an illness that needs to be fixed.
There is no ideology in it.
However, beyond all these wholesome things Bodisutra has been specifically designed to look at how we heal the roots of suffering in the human condition. It is not about "-isms," organised religion or scientific materialism.
Bodi is a character who has no filter. He calls a spade a spade. He singles out narcissists, wounded therapists, egomaniacal gurus, cruel bosses, nepotistic politicians, greedy swindlers, hypocritical activists, greenwashing polluters and the establishment that is switched off to its ignorance for the reprobates he sees in them.
What Bodi fails to understand is that he sees in them only his own madness pushed out. He is blinded by his own projections.
On the other hand, Norman is the voice of love. He represents the healed mind. He understands that the eyes are useless when the mind is blind. He condemns no one. And loves all as his one Self.
Despite the tensions that Bodi brings, we find a lot of love and warmth in the story. It becomes a vehicle for a deep understanding of the world and the mind that projects it into form. Bodisutra therefore becomes a profound reflection on what our real function is in time and space. We created a thinking monkey, one who is often delusional, to dive deeper. We explore the pain of the reactive mind by bringing it to the altar of gentle laughter. Putting such insights into an animation is no simple task. We are inspired to explore deep wisdom with levity and humor.
We are not promoting veganism or carnivore diets, woke nor anti-woke. We are neutral on such things. Happiness cannot be found in attacking self or others. We don't represent any religion. Bodi looks at how ideology, religion and belief systems can (and often does) create divisions between people, breeding hate and intolerance. Bodisutra points out that a lot of tribalism and what masquerades as philosophy, is born of fear and superstition. Nor are we zealots of science; though we respect science and its enormous contribution to human life. We are not against, nor for, atheism. We hold the mirror up to the hypocrisy of toxic power structures and how the father and mother complex and other projections of insecurity, in general, often drive institutions.
Bodisutra IS about the ending of the victim mind and the transcendence of the world. It’s about how difficult that process can be, and the humor that can help us in the process. It is a comedy about enlightenment; about the ending of anger and victimhood and the dropping of the various blocks to enlightenment.
We don’t believe feminism or chauvinism liberates the mind from victimhood. Feminism can do good things but it can also ensnare and bully and promote division and hate. All -isms can be used to engender harm or to liberate. A hammer can be used to build a house or kill a man. A poor workman blames his tools. No gender is superior to the other. The focus here is on the wisdom of the Triune society by Claudio Naranjo and Totila Albert.
All of life is therapy. But few master the mind. Much of what we cover is social commentary. We look at the projection of the"sacred" onto certain worldly things and not onto other worldly things. We start from these premises:
Nothing is sacred in this world.
Everything is a projection of the mind.
The world itself is a projection.
“Sacred” and “profane” are projected judgments.
A healed mind is sacred. That is not a judgment.
Examples:
You are a goddess (are you really?),
the sacred vegan sunflower,
the sacred altar
We touch on the breakdown of relationships and the rise of life coaches and therapists; many of whom are not in happy marriages and don’t have successful careers. Without being aware of it, they often prey on others’ insecurities. All too often the blind lead the blind. Our humor is designed to parody the traps of the delusional mind, to liberate, not to attack and demean.
